# 3 Closing thoughts

Congratulations, you have now completed this course!

Whatever your plans for future study, hopefully this course has provided a helpful and enjoyable introduction to ancient Greek and its place within ancient Greek life and society.

You should now be able to:

- read the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet
- recall a small set of ancient Greek words and their meanings in English
- read and understand simple sentences in ancient Greek
- understand some of the historical and geographical context of ancient Greek
- feel more confident about embarking on independent study of ancient Greek.

## Further study

If you would like to continue your studies, you can do this with the Open University, including formal study options:

- Learning Ancient Greek
- BA (Honours) Arts and Humanities (Classical Studies)

You can also keep learning right here on OpenLearn. There are over 1000 courses to choose from, including:

- Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
- Introducing the classical world
- Introducing Homer's Iliad

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